From: Simon Hibbs (simonh@msi-uk.com)
Date: Mon 03 Aug 1998 - 19:11:21 EEST
Jon S Green :
>Worse still, if you
>playing the system, not the game.
You may be able to do this in the cut-down version, but in the current
>had two debating-related skills at different skill/points levels, you
>could switch skills to "reset" your score if things were going badly --
draft you can't. You can change abilities but this only changes your
target number (and the effects you can achieve due to the different
ability), the action points total stays the same.
The playtest version is only designed to give a taste of the system.
They are the outer framework of the game mechanics without any of the
gritty details. Also, as Robin explained at Convulsion, it doesn't help
that it is based on the previous draft of the rules which is apparently
far more sophisticated and seems to address many if not all the
criticisms I've seen leveled at it so far.
Simon Hibbs
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